The Impact of Personality, Goal Orientation and Self-Efficacy on Participation of High School Teachers in Learning Activities in the Workplace

Vocations and Learning

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 21-40

  van Daal, Tine ^a   Donche, Vincent ^a   De Maeyer, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Goal orientation; Personality traits; Self efficacy; Self regulation; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896546762     PISSN: 1874785X     EISSN: 18747868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12186-013-9105-5     Document Type: Article

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